Death’s Gambit Guide

After you defeat Tundra Lord Kaeran, make your way back to Sanctuary. The reason for this backtracking is because we have unlocked a couple of new NPCs as well as the very useful ability to Enhance our equipment. To do this make your way back to the death idol and look for Zuma, Acolyte of Death, standing to the right. 

Zuma (NPC)

This NPC is located just beside the death idol in Sanctuary.

Locate just right of the Sanctuary death idol is Zuma. This NPC is Death’s assistant and is rather useful to us as we adventure. LIke other NPCs, Zuma offers a host of services which I will briefly run through down below:

• Talk: Speak with Zuma to get some advice on disenchanting items. 
• Enchant: Make your weapons stronger using Souls Stones and other materials (upgrade your weapon now). 
• Disenchant:Turn weapons into Soul Stones. 
• Meditate: Sit with Zuma for a brief moment. 
• Learn Ability: Zuma has three abilities for sale:
  • Reap – 150
  • Soul Rend – 150
  • Essence of Darkness – 200

Are return to Sanctuary is largely to do with visiting Zuma. You will want to upgrade your weapon at least a couple of times before the next few bosses. If you have the Soul Stones, drop them on whatever weapon you are currently most comfortable using. 

Nymeria (NPC)

You will find Nymeria sitting on this ledge in the ruined tower.

Located in the ruin tower in the center of Sanctuary is Nymeria. This NPC needs to be freed from the cell in the Obsidian Plateau in order for her to appear here. Once she is freed, she will offer to teach you some new abilities. These abilities are:

• Trueshot – 60
• Piercing Light – 90
• Multishot – 120

Nymeria specializes in arrow based abilities, so hit her up if you are doing a bow build. 

Once you’ve hit up Sanctuary and upgraded your weapon and armor, we can continue on our journey. You are going to want to head back to the camp area (just before the Phoenix boss). In this area we will be dropping down to where the Boss Journal was. Instead of heading right towards the spear wielding guy (that led back to Rider’s Passage), we are gonna take a left. This will lead us to a new area and boss fight. 

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